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-Let us know what you would specifically like to discuss
-What kind of workshop activities would best facilitate this discussion
Saturday 17 May 2008
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I've not been to a NaMu workshop before - although I did help to organise the last session in Leicester - but I would really appreciate the opportunity for plenty of networking/social time. And a mixture of presentations and, perhaps, round-table discussions/less formal sessions.
I'd like to work in small group maybe to look at online exhibitions and their narratives (re-negotiation of national identity)
and also look at web 2.0 programmes that national museums offer and discuss themes such as inclusion.
See you there!
An area for deeper investigation in cultural analyses of museums is that of technological tools and how these are taken up in knowledge production activities and practices, shaping 'cultural memory'. As social software is being embraced by museums for its potential in allowing participation and integrating 'user-generated' knowledge, for example, how can technologies and practices also be developed to track their historical and future impact on knowledge production?
I would like to explore examples of ways national museums are currently using Internet technology in innovative ways to reach audiences. A session with URLs prepared in advance for us to explore in pairs (groups) and then to discuss within a framework of questions might tease out some commonalities and differences and provide us with a common experience from which to discuss issues.
I am interested in the effects of new media in generating new publics, not so much in the sense of institutions reaching audiences, but in facilitating social interaction.If museum use is an inherently dialogic and social practice (where people engage with each other), will reliance on new media hinder social processes or encourage new ways of socializing?
one of my topics of interest is how national museum contents and narratives can/did/will change with web 2.0: Interactive web sites; Museum Blogs; e-Newsletters; Annual reports available online; online museum shops and «kids only» didactical contents...
Does all this mean 'more' public exposure and accountability, or 'business as usual'? We can certainly find changes in museum professionals procedures and contents production; but what can be today's methodologies to better understand museums, its actors and narratives and its changes.
I would like to explore the relationship between technology and democracy. I am interesting in the idea that technology is accessibility for everyone, but at the same time not everyone has access to technology.
It would be very interesting exploring museum’s website online, working in small groups and discussing about the technological change and how the online interactivity drives to the museum development.
I would be curious to learn about the use of "new" technologies by exhibition developpers in museums (be they national or nor) to communicate and exchange with their visitors, allowing them to share and contribute to the exhibition developmement.
hello again,
i would like to propose a 'workshop-project' on national narratives online:
a) list online availability of «History of the Museum and its Collections» - HOW do museums describe themselves and re-create themselves, e.g: do they present their History on several languages or just their own?;
b) when does their History begin and when does it end being told? - for example, do museums describe themselves until the present, the 21st century and their personal engaging on new technologies?
c)list online availability of collections;how is their website, etc, used for interaction? is there reflection from museum professionals on their own use of web2.0 technology?
Several museums in Seattle, where I live, have begun experimenting with the use of podcasts not only to promote exhibitions but also to act as gallery guides during visits. I remember the contemporary art museum in Oslo had minimal labeling, but provided a number you could dial with your mobile phone to hear more (possible issues being that it was pay-per-label, as well as only available to those with phones that had service in European countries). I work at a mid-size history museum where technology tends to come a bit more slowly, so I have no direct experience from the operations end - but I'd like to hear others' takes (both logistically and philosophically) on using such devices, particularly as they do or not appeal to visitors as exhibit elements. How does this affect visitors' reaction to and interaction with the object? Does it in any way exclude visitors without access to such technologies, or reinforce notions of museums as elitist institutions?
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